I haven’t written much on pinnipeds (seal, sea lions and walruses) here at ver 4. Here’s a recycling of material originally published at ver 2 way back in 2007, enjoy! I haven’t updated it…
Curtis, Swisher and Lewin’s Java Man of 2000: Hominin-Themed Books, Part 1
In Memory of Richard Ellis, Influential Artist and Author
Tet Zoo Reviews Zoos: New Forest Wildlife Park
New Species Round-up for 2023, Part 1
This is a time of ecological crisis and massive loss of animal diversity, make no mistake about it. But there’s still a vast amount of new stuff left to discover, and every year we see a significant influx of newly recognized species, even among tetrapods. In this and the next article, we take a whistle-stop tour of those tetrapod species new to science as of 2023. As ever, remember that new to science is not synonymous with new to humanity…
The Kleinmachnow Lion is Definitely Not a Lion
The Slightly Surprising Diversity of Zebras, Part 2
Back in October 2022, we looked at the diversity and evolution of plains zebras, a group that includes the Quagga. Here, we carry on with the zebra series, this time looking at Grevy’s zebra….
The Discovery of the Okapi, Part 2
The Discovery of the Okapi, Part 1
Piltdown Man and the Dualist Contention
Pouches, pockets and sacs in the heads, necks and chests of baleen whales
The Slightly Surprising Diversity of Zebras, Part 1
The Domes of Wisdom: an Asian Elephant Tale
Time for another article from the extensive TetZoo archives, this time a piece from ver 2, 2008 (original here). We begin with this interesting photo provided by my good friend Markus Bühler (of Bestiarium): it shows a bull Asian elephant Elephas maximus at Hagenbeck Zoo, Hamburg…
Domestic Horses of Africa
I’ve written a fair amount about HORSES at TetZoo, predominantly at versions 2 and 3. For reasons, I now aim to reproduce it here at ver 3. We start with a article I first published in 2015 (original version here)…
Hartebeest, Long-Faced Antelopes of Many Forms
In another effort to rescue old TetZoo material from the vandalized archives of ver 2 and 3, here’s a slightly revamped version of a 2009 article on hartebeest (the original version is here)…
Suddenly -- Duikers!
Meeting the Hayling Island Jungle cat
Once again I’m giving you something from the archives, since there’s just no chance at all to produce anything new right now. Here, then, is a TetZoo ver 3 article that was originally published there in 2013 (that version is here). Ironically, that 2013 article was itself a republishing of a version from 2009…
The Incredible South American Maned Wolf
Inspired by my recent article on South American wild dogs, I went to the trouble of digging out a very brief TetZoo ver 2 article I published in 2007 on the remarkable and beautiful 'fox on stilts', the Maned wolf Chrysocyon brachyurus (said article is here). My aim was to augment and update that text such that it might be a useful one-stop review on this animal.
Kogia, Shark-Mouthed Horror
Once more I must resort to plundering stuff from the archives, this time an article from TetZoo ver 2, originally published in July 2008 (and available here at wayback machine). Today: the kogiid sperm whales!
